MR. SOJAN VARGHESE

Member Governing Board Trustee ASB Trust

Mr. Sojan Varghese is a young business leader, successfully steering two infrastructure development firms in Muscat namely Burj Oman LLC and Saif Al Harasi & Co. LLC towards its next phase of growth and development. His earlier assignments included engineering and management roles in large corporates namely Godrej and Boyce, Carrier and Dorma. Mr. Sojan Varghese is a graduate engineer who also holds a MBA from the Durham University UK

MR. GEORGE M THOMAS

President ASB Trust

Mr. George M. Thomas is currently the Group Chairman of Saif Al Harasi & Burj Oman LLC Group of companies that has been operating in the Sultanate of Oman for nearly three decades. Mr. Thomas was instrumental in nurturing several institutions in the area of infrastructure development, hospitality and learning. His infrastructure development firms have successfully managed several prestigious turn key projects in the public and private sector and is a leader in infrastructure projects in the Sultanate of Oman. His social commitment, passion for world class education and vision of nurturing future leaders led to the formation world class educational institutions in Kerala. The Trivandrum International School which was founded in the year 2004 was the pioneer IB World School in Kerala offering international curriculum including IB PYP, IB DP, IGCSE apart from ICSE & ISC. The success of Trivandrum International School and the dearth of a quality business school in Trivandrum inspired him to start a high quality business school. the Asian School of Business in Trivandrum within the sprawling Technocity campus in the year 2005.

MR. G VIJAYARAGHAVAN

Founder- CEO of Technopark, Trivandrum

As a pioneering technocrat, he has contributed tremendously towards evolution of IT and software industry in Kerala, India and is the founder and former CEO of India's first software technology hub –Technopark and former President of International Association of Science Parks (Asia Pacific). Mr. Vijaya Raghavan has held key mentorship and advisory roles in both the government and in the private sector. Some of his earlier roles were as member of Kerala State Planning Board and the Kerala State Council of Science Technology and Environment actively contributing towards the development of Kerala. He is also the Hon. Director of Trivandrum International School and the National Institute of Speech & Hearing (NISH)

Dr . C. Krishna Kumar

Director

Krishna Kumar is a mechanical engineer from NIT Calicut. He completed his Postgraduation in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He received his Doctorate in Business Administration from the University of Liverpool, U. K..  He has over 28 years of corporate  experience in India, the Middle East and Africa. He has handled assignments in sales, marketing, retailing, exports and sourcing. His strengths are conceptualization and implementation of operating systems and processes. He is passionate about teaching and sharing his industry experience to budding managers and demonstrating how theories of marketing are applied to real-life situations in the field. His research interest is in the area of Consumer Behaviour.